Published in Guardian Guide September 8th 2007

Michelle Johnson
Manchester

Artist Heidi Schaefer's twenty+3 projects gallery is run with utter conviction and a thoroughly convincing international programme in the converted front room of her terraced house. Here features Mustard And Ketchup, the first UK solo show from Canadian Michelle Johnson. A digital print of an apocalyptic flood looks all too familiar from recent UK weather. Then there's a cheeky adaptation of a Ronald McDonald figure, dissolved from a cheering commercial emblem into a disintegrating mess gone out of contol.
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